{"id":5947,"date":"2016-12-30T23:45:05","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T05:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5947"},"modified":"2020-03-11T07:54:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T12:54:50","slug":"revolutionary-documentation-for-a-pension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/30\/revolutionary-documentation-for-a-pension\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolutionary Documentation for a Pension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Revolutionary War pension files can contain a variety of submitted materials to support a claim. This sampler comes from the pension file for John and Lucy (Chapel) Demoss. Not all submissions are this decorative, but one never knows what one may find. Revolutionary War pensions are available from the National Archives or online at <em>Fold3.com<\/em><em>.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.awltovhc.com\/image-865524-10934994-1383146580000\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/john-demoss-revolutionary-war-sampler.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5948 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/john-demoss-revolutionary-war-sampler.jpg\" alt=\"john-demoss-revolutionary-war-sampler\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/john-demoss-revolutionary-war-sampler.jpg 700w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/john-demoss-revolutionary-war-sampler-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/john-demoss-revolutionary-war-sampler-624x446.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Check out the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Genealogy Tip of the Da<\/a>y <\/em>book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Revolutionary War pension files can contain a variety of submitted materials to support a claim. This sampler comes from the pension file for John and Lucy (Chapel) Demoss. Not all submissions are this decorative, but one never knows what one may find. Revolutionary War pensions are available from the National Archives or online at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}